[skylarchunk]

This article remarks on the shared experience of suffering from TB among the two. I find it strange how TB had been molded into a glamorous disease reserved for the middle-upper class in times when writers like Camus and Weil were public patients. We, in a way, see a similar sort of sensationalism around a new virus with the Canadian PM's wife and Tom Hanks both being victims. The logic of the rebel is supported by the veneer of a medical malady—contextualized malady.

[wideasleep1]

For some, 'shit becomes real' when it happens to a 'virtuous' celebrity, in absence of them personally knowing of any other victim. It fits comfortably into emotional contagion, and the manufacture of heroes through martyrdom.